There are currently 156 questions. I began with 122.
I have thought about 132 of the questions since I started on July 8, 2006.
24 questions remained unswered when I stopped in the Summer of 2007
(10) A middle-aged person can no longer display certain emotions: flashing anger - seduction - naiveté - innocence...
What are the emotions appropriate to a middle aged person?
What are the emotions appropriate to a middle aged person?
(15) Is it better to live a calm life of uneventful efficiency? Or be tossed about between lows and highs like a butterfly in a chilly summer wind?
(18) How is it that so few people read history, but love to visit historical sites when they go on vacation?
(33) Is it ok to be unhappy and upset about things you cannot change? Like aging and dying and being me?
(38) How come the Europeans in the 17th to the 19th Centuries didn't invent summer wear or casual wear?
(41) Why do people in Germany still read, while the people in the US do not read very much? The two cultures have the same temptations: TVs, videos, and video games.
(43) How can there be differences among people? Is it different values? stupidity? matters of taste? mistakes? or snap judgments?
(46) Is spiritual insight most like: riding a bicycle? getting a math problem correct? reading a really good book? getting high or having an orgasm?
(49) What do the other people do, the ones who don't want to pretend they're not like everybody else?
(63) Would you rather be a great actor playing a small part, or a mediocre actor playing a big part?
(67) Can a person who is a believer and one who is not a believer talk about religion, or the nature of the universe?
(69) What do you have to believe to believe that: It is good for the US Government to hold prisoners indefinitely without pressing charges or letting them see any lawyers?
(75) What do you have to believe to believe that: It is all right to pay a CEO over 500 times what you pay your low-end employees.
(80) What do you have to believe to believe that: It is a terrible thing for anyone, anywhere to portray your spiritual being in a cartoon?
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